#lawrencewright
How did a handful of men build al-Qaeda? Wright traces bin Laden and Zawahiri across five decades.
#books #bookreview #LawrenceWright #AlQaeda
The Looming Tower Review – Wright on Al-Qaeda and 9/11
The Looming Tower review explores Al-Qaeda’s rise and the failures that led to 9/11.
thisgrandpablogs.com
October 29, 2026 at 12:08 AM
How did a handful of men build al-Qaeda? Wright traces bin Laden and Zawahiri across five decades.
#books #bookreview #LawrenceWright #AlQaeda
The Looming Tower Review – Wright on Al-Qaeda and 9/11
The Looming Tower review explores Al-Qaeda’s rise and the failures that led to 9/11.
thisgrandpablogs.com
October 29, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual Light of Justice Luncheon in Houston last week. Thank you to poet and activist @ianmanuel and author @lawrencewright.
October 26, 2026 at 7:10 PM
It’s not just about terrorism.It’s about the collision of worlds:

American intelligence failures
Saudi royal politics
Egyptian radicalism
CIA vs. FBI turf wars
And the rise of Osama bin Laden — not as a monster, but as a product of history.A masterpiece. 🧭 #NonFiction #LawrenceWright
November 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Trump & TomHoman kidnapping & deportationing people off the streets of America & throwing them into Central American prisons; without due process of law.
#EdwardZwick #lawrenceWright & the late #LyndaObst "Fictional movie", #TheSiege, is now becoming reality.
March 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Il premio Pulitzer #LawrenceWright racconta una grandiosa storia di una potente alleanza spirituale, quella tra le sette detenute condannate a morte in Texas e un gruppo di suore cattoliche. “È accaduto qualcosa dal Paradiso”. Sul @newyorker.com

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February 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ne “L’anno della peste” (@nredizioni.bsky.social), il premio Pulitzer #LawrenceWright racconta perché il 6 gennaio può essere definito “il più imperdonabile fallimento dell’intelligence dall’11 settembre”. Concedendo la grazia ai rivoltosi, Trump riafferma il proprio disprezzo verso l’intelligence.
January 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It’s 4:30am. Up all night to finish this 18 hr heartbreaking #novel by #PulitzerPrize winning author #LawrenceWright & strikingly read by @peterganim.bsky.social Hard to read, but we all need to do hard things now more than ever.
#thehumanscale
#booksky
#audiobooks
#booklover
#fiction
#middleeast
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM